Seneca Indians.
Subject
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Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a visit made by Penrose Wiley, John Letchworth, Anne Mifflin, Mary Bell, and others to the Seneca Indians settled on the Allegany River
Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9001
Scope and content
Original manuscript attributed to Mary Gilbert with description of meeting with Indians at Coldspring, Usqueshanadarqua, and Geneshatago. Includes quotes from Seneca chief Cornplanter and Blue Eyes. Described as the first visit by white women to Geneshatago. Also includes transcript of an excerpt from letter of Charles E. Congdon dated December 20, 1945 mentioning the manuscript, and the original invoice from Dauber & Pine Bookshops. Discussion of the white man using up all the water...
Dates:
1803.
Alfred Tamarin papers
Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9070
Scope and content
Correspondence, notes, photography permissions, and documents accumulated during research for the publication of his book We Have Not Vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Folder one contains copy of a draft of the publication titled "American Indians Today on the Atlantic Seaboard." Has the original photos that were to be used for the publication taped or laid into the pages. Folder two, list of George Catlin slides. Folder three, edits, revisions, additions, other historical...
Dates:
1968-1975.
Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9030
Scope and content
The handwritten documents are all copied from existing documents. They include a short biographical sketch about Chief Cornplanter and his sons; a letter written by John Langdale to Benjamin Franklin in 1764 about the nobility of character among the American Indians; a letter describing an incident involving a drunk Delaware Chief at a council meeting; a document about Chief Teedyuscung; extracts from a pamphlet entitled Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the...
Dates:
1763-1784.
Joel Benson collection
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9026
Scope and content
Includes one page titled "The prophet of the Allegheny," which is a description of meeting Red Jacket. A hymn in Mohawk, signed by Daniel Bread, dated February 13, 1829. Another letter in Mohawk signed by Daniel Bread. Also included is a Cherokee hymn book published by the American Baptist Publication Society, 1896. The items come with a letter explaining their provenance from Mary Benson Mann Adams, the great grand daughter of Joel Benson, dated February 20, 1944.
Dates:
1829.
John Christopher Frederick Cammerhoff and David Zeisberger journal
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065185021]
Identifier: 4112
Scope and content
Typescript translation of a journal kept by John Cammerhoff and David Zeisberger, two Moravian missionaries, as they journeyed through western New York in June and July, 1750. Journal includes accounts of hardships encountered and a description of the Seneca Indians at Genesee Castle, now Geneseo, New York. Translated from German by Clara Frueauff in 1882.
Dates:
1750.
Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers
Collection
Identifier: 9184
Abstract
Primarily letters to Keppler, including a record of events and people at the Tonawanda and Cattaraugus reservations, among others, over the first part of the twentieth century. Well known correspondents include noted Seneca scholar, Arthur C. Parker; artist, Jesse Cornplanter; and Mohawk poet, E. Pauline Johnson. Other parts of the collection include newspapers clippings on Iroquois subjects, government documents, Seneca vocabulary collected by Keppler, and other miscellaneous documents...
Dates:
1882-1944.
Letters concerning Seneca and Mohawk affairs
Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9010
Scope and content
Letter from Eleazer Williams, dated Oneida December 21, 1817 to David A. Ogden discussing a meeting regarding the subject of the late Council Fort Meigs. Includes references to Mr. Parish, western Indians, and the Six Nations. The second is from individuals at St. Regis, including Lewis Cook, William Gray, and Potter Late Gaienton, to David A. and Thomas L. Ogden, dated St. Regis May 7, 1803. The letter disagrees with the selling of some land called Rapid Plan Island to another individual....
Dates:
1803-1819.
New York State Archeological Association Lewis H. Morgan Chapter records
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940723]
Identifier: 2555
Scope and content
Manuscripts, typescripts, and carbon copies of proceedings, papers, speeches, and printed material concerning the Indians of New York, including the Senecas and other Iroquois who inhabited western New York, especially Ontario and Genesee Counties; speeches and papers concerning the history of Genesee County, the history of American archaeology, North American Indians (including those in Canada), and the practice of local history; and biographical sketches and related materials on Lewis H....
Dates:
1916-1924.
Pamphlets on the Seneca Indians
Collection — Manuscript box 55 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252524]
Identifier: 3148m
Scope and content
Pamphlet "The Indian bread root of the Senecas" (1890), describing various roots and how the Indians used them; "Rites of adoption by the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation" (June 15, 1885), with two pages of manuscript notes laid in; and "Dust from an old Indian trail" by Irving W. Coates (reprinted from the Ontario repository-messenger of March 15, 1894), describing a Seneca trail that ran from the Canandaigua Outlet at Littleville, New York to Phelps, New York, and commenting...
Dates:
1885-1894.
Rochester, New York, miscellany
Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1
Identifier: 275
Scope and content
Mounted newspaper clippings on the Seneca Indians, location of the last bivouac of the soldiers of 1812, Isaac Quinby, and the oldest Norwegian house in the United States. Also a leaflet on Rochester from a Rochester Historical Society publication.
Dates:
ca. 1932-1934.